First published in 1935, Flora Mayor’s THE ROOM
OPPOSITE and Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination is impossibly scarce to
find and thus commands a high price when tracked down.

Excellent traditional
ghost stories after the manner of M. R. James, who opined that those pieces
"which introduce the supernatural commend themselves to me very
strongly." James did not hand out such compliments freely. Sundial’s new
edition will feature an Introduction by Richard Dalby.

Best known for her beautifully
observed and otherworldly novel The Rector's Daughter, Flora MacDonald Mayor was a remarkable
woman. She read history at Newnham College Cambridge in the early 1890s and
then became an actress before turning to literature. She wrote short stories —
her first book was a collection of short stories, Mrs Hammond's Children,
published in 1902 under the pseudonym, Mary Strafford — and three novels; The
Third Miss Symons (1913), The Rector's Daughter (1924) & The
Squire's Daughter (1929). She was also a writer of ghost stories,
published in her sole collection of 'mystery tales' The Room Opposite, greatly admired by
many including the supreme master of the genre M R James.

Price: £19.50 Limited edition Hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-908274-38-0

Book Dimensions: 210 × 148 mm
Publication: 2019

Although
one might assume the works of Flora Mayor are in the public domain, as we had, a
literary agency is claiming copyright representation for their client
which we are disputing. Until this issue has been satisfactorily
resolved we have no option but to defer publication.